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At 4:15 p.m. on February 24, 2026, the clerk of the Domestic Relations Division in Cook County time-stamped a verified petition that had been building, by statute, for months. Case No. 2026D001358 records Oleksandr Ozhoh’s request to dissolve his marriage to Alyssa Anderson-Ozhoh, a union solemnized on August 20, 2018, in Cook County and registered there. The petition states that no other dissolution action is pending in any other county or state.
Ozhoh, 33, resides in Chicago and affirms that he has lived in Illinois for more than ninety days preceding the filing. Anderson-Ozhoh, 35, resides in Los Angeles, California. The parties, the petition notes, have no children born to or adopted during the marriage, and the petitioner is not pregnant. The respondent is not currently serving in the Armed Forces of the United States.
The filing asserts that the parties have lived separate and apart for a period in excess of six months, identifying August 1, 2023, as the point from which that period runs. Irreconcilable differences, it states, have caused the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage, and attempts at reconciliation have failed or would be impracticable and not in the parties’ best interests. Both are described as able-bodied and capable of supporting themselves without contribution from the other, and the petition asks that maintenance be denied to each.
It further details the property accumulated during the marriage—furniture, financial accounts, retirement plans, automobiles, jewelry, and other assets—along with marital debts, including credit cards and revolving credit accounts. The petitioner seeks designation of certain items as non-marital property and requests equitable division of marital property and debts. Filed in the closing days of February, the petition shifts a private arrangement into a formal adjudication. From this point forward, the terms of separation will be shaped not by informal understanding but by statutory criteria and judicial order, a transition from personal decision to public record.
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